Re: Gas Can with Pump

Rye Gewalt (ryeg@vais.net)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:26:06 -0400


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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Yes, I don't think I am interested in buying one either, but since there was so much conversation about it a while back I thought it was worth bringing to the attention of the group. I agree about the gas can size and now have a one gallon Rubbermaid can and that, plus a full tank seems like more gas that I can use for a while. I have a four gallon tank that I can take on long trips if I get anxious.... I have been thinking about those expensive aluminum bottles that they sell at camping
stores as another safe alternative, but hate to pay ten bucks each for the darn things.

"J.J.Falkanger" wrote:

> Rye,
>
> I've had one of these for about a year now. It's okay, but what I would prefer is one of those spouts that don't let you overfill.
>
> The "pump" is just that. It's a pump at the can, with a gas station looking nozzle. So you need one hand to hold the nozzle, one to do the pump, and one to hold the tank down while pumping. And 5 gallons of gas is a _shitload_ for a Potter! I put 3 gallons of mix in there last year, before a trip across the Albemarle Sound (which I motored the whole way back) and I still have a gallon left (and as the gas has evaporated, I have been adding little bits of pure gas to approximate the mix).
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> I'm probably going to go with a 1 gallon jug and that spout I mentioned. Would probably be easier to fill the motor on the water than the pump, which will be relegated to pure gas for the mower, if I can ever get finished with the gas/oil in the tank!
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> Take care,
>
> J.J. Falkanger
> Cary, NC
> P-19 #792 "Fozzguppy"
>
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